BOOK REVIEW 'On Desperate Ground' by Hampton Sides

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ON DESPERATE GROUND: THE MARINES AT THE RESERVOIR, THE KOREAN WAR'S GREATEST BATTLE By Hampton Sides Doubleday, $30, 398 pages On Oct. 15, 1950, early in the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman flew 7,000 miles to Wake Island in the Pacific to meet Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Commander for ...

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